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Thailand to ban plastic waste imports from 2021
Thailand will ban all imports of plastic scrap and waste from 2021, the Thai government recently announced, noting that although it had announced a halt to those imports in June it will take two years before existing import licenses expire and the policy can be implemented without any exceptions. Developed countries made Thailand and other … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBASF, Avantium in Synvina dispute
I hate posting this kind of news but I’m still a reporter at heart so I just hope that these two companies will resolve their issues about Synvina, the joint venture formed by BASF and Avantium. The JV aims to set up a 50 ktpa FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) reference plant at BASF’s site in Antwerp, … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEUpdated: EU Bioeconomy Strategy
An updated EU Bioeconomy Strategy was recently released by the European Commission, which according to EuropaBio, signals the EU’s continued commitment towards establishing itself as a world leader in renewable resource efficiency, catalyzed by transformative industrial biotechnology. The 2018 update of the Bioeconomy Strategy aims to accelerate the deployment of a sustainable European bioeconomy so as to … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEVIDEO: Meet Nouryon and the New DuPont
There had been so many M&As and spin-offs in the chemical industry that it is hard to keep track of them. However, I am particularly interested in these two companies, the new Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) and the new DuPont as these two have been proactive in the renewable chemicals market. Nouryon was launched following the … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBiotech companies find a sweet spot in food ingredients market
Biotech companies such as Amyris, Evolva, Conagen, and Cambridge Glycoscience are now on the verge of trying to capture tiny slices of the $80bn global sweeteners market. Demand for sweeteners has been accelerating driven by the demand for natural sweeteners to replace aspartame and sucralose with consumers demanding clean labels. According to Euromonitor International, future … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEFrances Arnold, Co-Founder of Gevo, Wins Nobel Prize
Gevo co-founder Professor Frances Arnold of the California Institute of Technology has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on the directed evolution of enzymes. According to Gevo, Professor Arnold and her research group developed some of the critical enzymes needed for Gevo’s biological pathway to produce renewable resource-based isobutanol. She is reportedly … Continue reading
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